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Compiled corpus size
6,763,720 rows as published by primary sources — the evidence base behind every statistic on this site.
What this measures
The evidence base behind every statistic on this site: 6,763,720 raw source records across 28 source tables, counted directly from the compiled lake on 2026-10-04. Federal awards, provincial tender and award records, municipal contract registries, and tribunal documents — each row exactly as a primary source published it.
| Source | Records |
|---|---|
| Federal awards — TBS Proactive Publication | 1,313,281 |
| Montreal — contracts and registries | 3,200,409 |
| Quebec SEAO — tenders, bidder lines, annual files | 1,210,410 |
| Canada Buys — archived contracts and notices | 689,661 |
| Alberta — Blue Book, PAC, sole-source, solicitations | 123,007 |
| Municipal contracts — six cities | 69,163 |
| New Brunswick — awards and bidder lines | 56,802 |
| Nova Scotia awards | 33,435 |
| US awards to Canadian recipients | 24,000 |
| Saskatchewan awards | 23,254 |
| British Columbia ministry awards | 15,068 |
| Manitoba awards | 3,139 |
| CITT bid-challenge documents | 2,043 |
| Prince Edward Island awards | 48 |
| Total | 6,763,720 |
Methodology
Row counts over the raw source tables of the compiled lake, verified 2026-10-04. Derived analytical tables (the normalized award table) and ingestion metadata are excluded; rows are counted as loaded, without cross-source deduplication — the same record can appear in both an award line and a bidder line, and both are evidence rows.
Frequently asked questions
How many records are in the compiled corpus?
6,763,720 raw source records across 28 source tables, counted directly from the compiled lake on 2026-10-04. The count spans federal, provincial, municipal, and tribunal sources.
What counts as a record?
One row as published by a primary source: an award line, a tender notice, a bidder line, or a complaint document. Records are counted as loaded; no deduplication across sources is applied at this layer.
How does this differ from the unified award count?
The normalized award table — one row per award, deduplicated and standardized across jurisdictions — is smaller. This page counts raw source rows: the full as-published evidence base behind every statistic on this site.
Which sources are the largest?
Montreal's contract registries (3,200,409 rows), the federal proactive publication (1,313,281), Quebec SEAO tender and bidder records (1,210,410), and Canada Buys archived awards and notices (689,661).
Public Service Index (October 2026). Compiled corpus size. Release 2026.10. https://publicserviceindex.org/stats/record-count